Invincible Dad-Chapter 661 There Are No Immortals in the World_1
Ruan Tang grew more and more incensed as she glared fiercely at Xu Lai.
Xu Lai coughed. "Sweetie, next time... next time Daddy will bring you here."
"Mmm, you better keep your promise next time, Daddy," Xu Yiyi nodded obediently, then muttered under her breath, "Also, Mommy is so mean."
"Indeed, very mean." Xu Lai nodded vigorously. My daughter has good judgment.
Ruan Tang sensed there was something odd about Xu Lai’s words and his gaze, but she didn’t dwell on it. "Stop your nonsense. Let’s go home," she chided.
"Whatever my wife says."
"Listen to Mommy."
"..."
The family of three packed their belongings and prepared to head home.
As they descended from the stone pillar of the Xianren Residence, they noticed two shadowy figures acting suspiciously in the distance.
Never mind someone of Xu Lai’s boundary; even Ruan Tang noticed them.
She grabbed Xu Lai’s hand and said hesitantly, "I think there’s someone over there."
"Come out!" Xu Yiyi gripped the Yunxiao Sword, her small face tense. She had to protect her Daddy and Mommy.
"No, no, no, we’re good people!"
A panicked voice was followed by the appearance of a figure: a young man about seventeen or eighteen years old.
Behind him, in the bushes, was a girl of a similar age with plain features and a few small freckles on her face. She was staring with great concern at the sword in Xu Yiyi’s hand.
"Put the sword away," Xu Lai said, glancing at his daughter before smiling at the newcomers. "Hey, handsome, do you need something from us?"
GULP.
The young man swallowed nervously, his voice trembling with excitement. "Sir, are you Immortals?"
"He... he said the Immortal from the Xianren Residence was back yesterday and insisted on dragging me here..." the girl spoke timidly from behind the young man, too shy to show her face.
"The legends about Immortals are all fake," Xu Yiyi said sullenly as she sheathed her sword. "The cave is just full of bird droppings and branches. There are no Immortals."
"Is that so?" The youth and the girl both looked disappointed.
They were natives of Chang Island and had once wholeheartedly believed the legends of the Xianren Residence; otherwise, they wouldn’t have come seeking Immortals at the age of eighteen. Of course, there were other, more important reasons as well.
"There are no Immortals in this world."
After mimicking her father’s tone, Xu Yiyi threw the Yunxiao Sword into the air, then hopped on and soared away, transforming into a rainbow of light.
The young man: "..."
The girl: "..."
Both of them stood dumbfounded. "You really are Immortals!"
The young man then grit his teeth and knelt before Xu Lai, thumping his head heavily on the ground. "Immortal, I want to cultivate!"
After a moment’s hesitation, the girl knelt beside him.
Ruan Tang opened her mouth to speak but stopped herself.
Xu Lai, however, was much more composed. "First, I’m not an Immortal. Second, you see that stone pillar?"
Following Xu Lai’s gaze, the young man nodded eagerly. "I see it. It’s the Xianren Residence pillar. I’ve been looking at it for eighteen years."
"Climb it."
With that single command, Xu Lai took his wife’s hand and left Chang Island, completely ignoring the astonished and bewildered expressions of the two teenagers.
***
Outside the entrance of the Above the White Clouds company, Ruan Tang frowned. "Xu Lai, they’re just ordinary people. That pillar is over 2,000 meters tall. Climbing it would be fatal."
"To step onto the path of cultivation, one must be prepared to die. To desire a powerful boundary without being willing to take the slightest risk..." Xu Lai shook his head. "There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world."
Ruan Tang fell silent. She knew Xu Lai was right, so she just sighed softly and turned back into the company.
A person makes countless choices in their lifetime, and each choice leads to a different outcome. These outcomes, for better or worse, can change the course of one’s entire destiny. Everyone must take responsibility for the choices they make, even if the consequence is death. Not even a Third Grade Martial Artist could scale that two-kilometer-high stone pillar, let alone two incredibly naive children.
Even so, Xu Lai still left a cultivation technique behind in the cave at the Xianren Residence.
The Buddha guides the fated. As for Xu Lai, he guided not only the fated, but also the mad.
"A mere 2,000-meter-high Xianren Residence? I, Chen Ping’an, refuse to be intimidated by that!"
The young man actually began to climb the stone pillar. He smoothly climbed five meters on his first attempt before his foot slipped. He nearly fell but fortunately managed to grab a protruding rock and barely maintain his balance.
"Ping’an, be careful!" the girl called out, her expression full of worry. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
"Yuyu, go home and wait for my good news." Chen Ping’an cracked a smile. "Your dad said that as long as I can become an Immortal’s disciple, he won’t make you marry the village chief’s son. He can’t go back on his word!"
"..."
Yu Yuyu bit her thin lip. Chen Ping’an’s parents had died in a shipwreck, and her father had never liked him, nor did he want the two of them to be together. That was why he had given Chen Ping’an an impossible task, deliberately making things difficult for him. But the fool had taken him seriously, guarding the stone pillar day and night for a year. Just yesterday, he had come to her excitedly, saying the Immortal had returned.
She rolled up her sleeves, tied her skirt into a slipknot, and began to climb as well.
"Go back!" Chen Ping’an panicked. He didn’t want Yu Yuyu risking her life with him.
"Say one more word, and I’ll go get married."
"..."
Chen Ping’an instantly fell silent.
He quietly moved to Yu Yuyu’s side. They met each other’s gaze and suddenly burst out laughing at the same time.
"Your smile is so beautiful," Chen Ping’an said in a daze.
Blushing, Yu Yuyu turned away. "It’s not that beautiful," she mumbled.
"I don’t care! Yu Yuyu is the most beautiful woman in the world, and I, Chen Ping’an, am going to marry her!" Chen Ping’an roared.
"You... you shut up," Yu Yuyu stammered, her face turning an even deeper shade of red.
***
Xu Lai withdrew his gaze, no longer paying attention to the two young people on Chang Island.
After leaving the company, he returned to the campus infirmary and began to study the third Cloud Water Rust Character. The Cloud Water Rust on the No Righteous Sword had manifested as thirty-six characters, each of which likely held boundless wonders. To the current Xu Lai, not even the Emperor Scripture of other Great Emperors was as alluring as the Cloud Water Rust.
Where exactly is The Other Shore that Elder Huang Quan spoke of? There’s another star domain... the 100,000-zhang-tall giant Gu Yan, and the No Righteous Sword. Elder Huang Quan included, they might all have come from other star domains. The nine keys scattered across different stars in this Star Domain lead to the Nine Kings’ Palace. The Gate of the Other Shore is very likely inside the Nine Kings’ Palace. Or it might not be.
Xu Lai sighed. It’s a pity I only have one key; the other eight are nowhere to be found.
He had once been very close to the seventh key, but he hadn’t found anything in the Mass Burial Mound.
Suddenly, Xu Lai’s pupils contracted.
The No Righteous Sword is a key. In that case, could it be that the male giant named Gu Yan, or the corpse of the female giant, is also a key?
At this thought, Xu Lai felt an itch in his heart. He suppressed the urge to grab Heavenly Dao and demand an answer, knowing the little bastard would just feign amnesia even if it knew the truth. He wondered when Elder Huang Quan would appear again. Perhaps he could ask him then.
